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<font size=3>[Forwarding from Isidro F. Aguillo. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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The July edition of the Ranking Web of World Universities
(<a href="http://www.webometrics.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.webometrics.info</a>) shows important news. Most of them are
due to changes done to improve the academic impact of the open web
contents and to reduce the geographical bias of search engines. As a
result, the US universities still lead the Ranking (MIT with its huge
Open Courseware is again the first, followed by Harvard, Stanford and
Berkeley), but the digital gap with their European counterparts
(Cambridge and Oxford are in the region’s top) has been reduced. Even
more important, some of the developing countries institutions reach high
ranks, especially in Latin America where the University of Sao Paulo
(38th) and UNAM (44th) benefits from the increasingly interconnected
Brazilian and Mexican academic webspaces.<br><br>
Several countries improves their performance including Taiwan and Saudi
Arabia with strong web oriented strategies, Czech Republic (Charles), the
leader for Eastern Europe, Spain (Complutense) and Portugal (Minho,
Porto) with huge repositories and strong Open Access initiatives. Norway
(NTNU, Oslo), Egypt could be also mentioned.<br><br>
On the other side, the underrated are headed by France, with a very
fragmented system, Korea, whose student-oriented websites are frequently
duplicated, New Zealand, India or Argentina.<br><br>
Africa is still monopolized by South African universities (Cape Town is
the first, 405th), as well as Australian Universities are the best ranked
for Oceania (Australian National University, 77th)<br><br>
Other well performing institutions include Cornell or Caltech in the USA,
Tokyo (24th) Toronto (28th), Hong Kong (91st), or Peking (104th). On the
contrary, in positions below expected we find Yale, Princeton, Saint
Petersburg, Seoul and the Indian Institutes of Science or
Technology.<br><br>
Check out also:<br><br>
Ranking Web of Research Centers
<a href="http://research.webometrics.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://research.webometrics.info/<br>
</a>Ranking Web of Repositories
<a href="http://repositories.webometrics.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://repositories.webometrics.info/<br>
</a>Ranking Web of Hospitals
<a href="http://hospitals.webometrics.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://hospitals.webometrics.info/<br>
</a>Ranking Web of Business Schools
<a href="http://business-schools.webometrics.info/" eudora="autourl">
http://business-schools.webometrics.info/<br><br>
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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD<br>
Cybermetrics Lab<br>
CCHS - CSIC<br>
Albasanz, 26-28, 3C1. 28037 Madrid. Spain<br><br>
Ph. 91-602 2890. Fax: 91-602 2971<br><br>
isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es<br>
www. webometrics.info<br>
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